Finding solace in music and its soothing effects is a panacea of the bleeding hearts. Anguish, repulsion, revulsion against establishment and power, frustration, dismay and depression all finds solution there. The emphasis is more to the lyric and its ethos rather than the music embedded there.
Let us explore the frontiers of such music and sense it…..

Saturday, February 04, 2012

ALMA COGEN: WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE [10 ]

Alma Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed "The Girl With the Laugh/Giggle/Chuckle In Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Throughout the mid-1950s, she was the most consistently successful female singer in the UK.She was born Alma Angela Cohen in Whitechapel, East London, England, of Russian Jewish descent. Her parents Mark and Fay Cohen had another daughter, the future actress Sandra Caron, four or five years later and Alma Cogan also had a brother. Mark Cohen's work as a haberdasher involved opening stores in different areas; this entailed frequent relocation for his family. One of Cogan's early residences was in Worthing, Sussex – where her family originally lived above her father's shop.

Although Jewish, she attended St Joseph's Convent School in Reading.Her father was a singer but it was Cogan's mother who had show business aspirations for both her daughters – she had named Cogan after silent screen star Alma Taylor – and after eleven-year-old Cogan won the Sussex Queen of Song contest her encouraged mother managed to get her an audition with bandleader Ted Heath, who was impressed but thought Cogan too young.

Nevertheless by her teens Cogan was singing at London tea dances and at age fourteen she was featured in a variety show at the Grand Theatre in Brighton having been recommended by Vera Lynn.

Baby's good to me, you know,She's happy as can be, you know,She said so.I'm in love with her and I feel fine.Baby says she's mine, you know,She tells me all the time, you know,She said so.I'm in love with her and I feel fine.I'm so glad that she's my little girl.She's so glad, she's telling all the worldThat her baby buys her things, you know.He buys her diamond rings, you know,She said so.She's in love with me and I feel fine, mmm.Baby says she's mine, you know,She tells me all the time, you know,She said so.I'm in love with her and I feel fine.I'm so glad that she's my little girl.She's so glad, she's telling all the worldThat her baby buys her things, you know.He buys her diamond rings, you know,She said so.She's in love with me and I feel fineShe's in love with me and I feel fine, mmm.